That pair of smart lights in your home, the customizable Flic button on your desk, your voice assistant of choice, and the smart outlet in your office all add up to create a smart home you can use before, during, and after your workday. Instead of just telling Alexa to turn on your bright white lights to boost your…

If This Then That is great for everything from managing your savings to archiving your favorite songs on Spotify, but did you know you can also use it to find free video games? There are dozens of applets (IFTTT’s name for any combination of triggers and actions used through the service) designed to help you track…

IFTTT is an app and web service that uses if-then statements to trigger certain actions or activities in your favorite apps and devices. If you’re not familiar with IFTTT, definitely check out our beginner’s guide to understand the basics. After you get a handle on it, read on for the IFTTT Recipe of The Week, our…

In our new series Getting It, we’ll give you all you need to know to get started with and excel at a wide range of technology, both on and offline. Here, we’re arming you with everything you need to know to master the world of IFTTT.

If you have either the Echo from Amazon or the Google Home device, you likely already use it to play music, get news updates, and ask for information about the weather, but thanks to integration with the If This Then That (IFTTT) platform, you can do much more—including finding your phone when it’s lost.

Ever get epic ideas while you’re in the car? If so, you’ve probably struggled to figure out how to jot down those ideas without swerving into oncoming traffic. It can be a distraction for sure, but one Redditor has a useful suggestion that involves one of our favorite tools: IFTTT.

If This Then That, one of the best automation tools out there, is getting a big overhaul today that changes some of the fundamental ways the service works. The biggest change comes in rebranding its recipe system so it now allows one trigger to connect to multiple services.

Android/iOS/Web: Microsoft’s IFTTT competitor Flow has been in beta for the better part of 2016 but it wasn’t quite fully-baked yet. Now, the company is ready to release it to the world and it’s starting to look good.

The idea of a machine that talks to you intelligently might be a ways off still, but Instructables user MisterM wanted to make a radio that’d announce general details throughout the day. To do this, he wired up a Raspberry Pi Zero to a text-to-speech engine, then tossed in a dose of If This Then That.

If This Then That (IFTTT) is one of the best automation services around, and starting today, it’s going to get a lot better. Until today, you always needed to set up, discover, and activate recipes on the IFTTT site or app. Now, you can do it directly from the third-party app you want to use.

Fitbit’s alone won’t make you healthy, but the more you see the data, the better understanding you can have of what you need to do. Over at Initial State, they made a guide that creates a big dashboard of all your Fitbit data so you can easily see it visualized.

Spend a lot of time playing indoor games where you’re keeping track of points? It sucks to have to stop the action to draw a line on a chalkboard, which is why Instructables user JeffreyLoucks created his own voice controlled scoreboard system using an Alexa and IFTTT.

Connecting all the webapps and services you use and making them work together for you is all the rage, but the two established services for doing so, IFTTT and Zapier, are now joined by a new heavyweight: Microsoft Flow. It’s time to compare these three powerful options to see which is the best, and for whom.

Wouldn’t it be cool if your phone knew to enter airplane mode when you go to the theater, or text your spouse when you leave work? IFTTT and Tasker can automate countless tasks like these to turn your phone into an attentive personal assistant. Today, we’re putting them both in the ring to see which one’s better at…

You’re probably familiar with “keep the change” programs. Your purchases are rounded up to the nearest dollar, and the difference is automatically deposited into your savings account. Savings app Qapital is based on this idea, but it takes automation to a whole new level. It allows you to turn pretty much anything…